Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the staff arrived in Salzburg at the end of June, all but the physical details were in hand. They found their home windowless because of a near miss by an Allied bomb, plaster crumbling, plumbing insufficient. With Levin H. Campbell, III '48 and Kingsley Ervin, Jr. '45 and Jean Andrey from ISS as aides to the original trio, the staff set out to conquer the terrain...
Watts and Hayes hooked ropes onto the box, started to haul it out. The rope slipped and Hayes went in to refasten it. Middleton raised his whistle to warn people in nearby buildings. The bomb went off. What was left of Hayes and Watts was buried under the collapsed stone building. Middleton's body was blown through a barbed wire barrier and across the Street of the Prophets. His police whistle was still in his mouth...
...York, where a summertime war on bookies brought on a shake-up in the police department, Mayor William O'Dwyer made realistic reply when he was asked if he thought a shake-up could really kill bookmaking: "I see very hopeful signs of that in the atom bomb...
...early spring, Heller hired famed Leopoldskron Castle, once the home of Producer Max Reinhardt. The windows, shattered by a U.S. bomb, were unboarded and mended, the huge rooms refurbished; blackboards and lecture platforms were set up in the glittering corridors where Max Reinhardt once entertained. By July, the school was ready to open...
...which schemed against Hitler from the Reichstag fire (1933) down through World War II. He regards Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg (the man who nearly killed Hitler on July 20, 1944) as a Johnny-come-lately with half-Nazi ideas of his own. It was Stauffenberg who lugged a bomb-laden briefcase into field headquarters at Rastenburg, East Prussia, and left it to explode under Hitler's nose. The blast gave Hitler a good shaking up, and as a result of it more than 50 general staff officers died. Author Gisevius, one of the few plotters who survived, went...